Volcano Wakes up After 100,000 Years and Alerts Other Sleeping Giants
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For more than 100,000 years, the Methana volcano in Greece did not record eruptions, lava flows or ash columns. However, new research concluded that under its surface intense magmatic activity continued.The study was published in the scientific journal Science Advances and was led by researchers from the Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETHZ), in Switzerland.The findings suggest that some volcanoes may remain inactive for tens to hundr…
Less than 60 kilometres from Athens, the Méthana volcano seemed to be deeply asleep. No documented eruption for 2,250 years, described by the Greek historian Strabon, and a long pause of more than 100,000 years in eruptive activity. Yet, the magma had never ceased to accumulate in depth. This is shown by a study published on 22 April 2026 in Science Advances, conducted by Răzvan-Gabriel Popa, volcanologist in the Department of Earth Sciences and…
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